NOTES OF THE DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 4

NOTES OF THE DAY.

The internstitva cable: -iiiessage of yesterday concerning -the' English araateur golf final seems to have been terribly misunderstood by sonii: p'eo-' pie. ''Johnn.'je' 1 ,®all' ioiight it 'out; with Abe; .Mit'c'heli,. who hanp'ens to be a chauffeur, and, for a reason perhaps not uncoiinectoo;, T >yith the .ten;-, sion of "labour'' politics, a crowd of '''artisans" turhccl up to demon:-' st-rate hpainst the_ popular ''John., nie." Tiieiv behaviour .was ohvious!y. resented-' by. t-hos.e of the spectators ■ who regard golf as a p.ure sport, sincc the* nevSjiapers gvp; repbrte'ei t;o have commeiit-id' u.pcin. "tlio intiio.du.ction of the partisa.n clciiient. 1 ' The. Times coniiilaincd ot the "unspor's.manlike" conduct- of the crowd, and' the Dailii Xe>N dec'a reel, as one would expect of "this halfpenny voice of the less, scrupulous section of Radicalism that the natural disgust;■ of a section- of .the. 'sp'ectatoi's. was mere "aristocratic" n'seiitment of the "imperenca" of a workir.an in. knowing .Kow to play good golf. From these scraps ((liyone cin construct t iie scene: tw.o good spor-fs-mcn playing a' fricndly; filial, ii -sec- , tion of?;tM;ctoM raucou.dy treat: ing ihe ganin as a- corifiict oi' the classes,.nd J Vic otlser section disgusted at the lladical mob : s introduc-. tion ot politics iiiio sport. ] r .veryone' knowSi-iMcliSioSt: ieopfe the fact,; that 'sport- in liritain . classcs and polilics do not exist. ; s T^iiirß;;isvajhplc : of this fact. confidently: fcel-'siticc >. good aiiia.teur golfer,:im.he. n -Duke, or must b^. ; noMnytlie. least share, the opinion of the Dai!'! Nr.ws or be.gratefiil. lor the of those "art-isan' : spectators who tried to mato'ipplijij'cs out .of his golf.- O.he does not rcqtrirc to be an aristocrat in order. to dislike'the ofiensive J'adical to spoil' sjfopt i : h. this \jß,

Souk of our l.ibcral fricnds.appear., to be ..jjreji.'iring i ln.ir readers, wiUi-.| a rather ciiiinsy obviousness, for tiie j return, of Slit Joseph' Waud to ■ the j lcadershii'i .of , the' • liaicrogeucou?. | party thai a fe.w ago had real- ■ iscd he, was the ituin. -of:'-,iWe arc inclined to stispcct tluit not least amongstitfe-mptivos' at the back .of: this singular culiiiinat.ioii. of "Liberal" distraction is a hankering af : .If-, the Mackenzie. Jlinistere have made, any!hing .clear, .it iias been "their anxietyH^giye : :"]jibcraJisn^'^-m^ needed bath, iu.'order to eleanse it of the grosser things .that have, thickened upon.it during: the, last''dvnnt-y y earsi. ■Tiiei cjg;bceu silentV.jiponi;''tlie;;'TS'cd'.for,;;,TC Civil ;;'SctyiciSJrefpi;m,.:Jpc nient reform', refovin of the.'faihvays admirii^trafioh£a ; the. headejuartors of petty - local bartevings in r rcgai;A' to public works. Again an'cl again 'jj'li;. MXpKEN2;ip : and his colleii.gucß have insisted that what -is v.aiitecl is,, not- legislation,but the .reform of administrarion: and - seven; 1 ' 'Liliera!'' .papers ha ve been^^king>tliem^ijy: : .v Th.ose_ people wlnx.are sid obviously prepa'riiig ' to Siii'.JoSEj'H WvUti) back into the leadership pa'rty arc doulitless sti'dngly. influenced !by tiie hone that hr: will help to stave off the refoniis M;h'ich tho ii.v;K!;xxiiy ilinistry h.as admitted to be necessary and which-a section of the. Liberal.pa will, pr.obii'oly •.velcotiie. The country knows so does, the "Liberal" party. ..We shall bo ciiridriS'.to .'stip:. the process liy which the been ■^iTiisfcry i '"'s ■ eager advcatacy of, fctforin will persuade, themselves that after nil another... roll in the old "\yallbw" will do no 'harm. .

Early- h'st' month the ca'olc ■-.rrios-1 ?agL'S. kept us inforinod. of- ; a innjish cainpiiigii ngjiin.st. the Right -Hon.' J.vmks BRYC'K'hy sonic of the. Tavifljt-c extremists .it). Ilotisc: .of Gpriinion's';■ ' arising, out- of vh.at the. cai>l r; agent lTfcrrqcl to a;i ''.111!; TavtTioosk.v!:i,t corrtsiJandence,'' aiicl-; por.liapS jirritatccf. nia!?y; : tlia'fe'. we wore: left- in the dark conoorning tho suhslatici! of ■ this (rirrespondeiict;. TiiivAnifir.ica.il titail in-ings us the dc'-- ■ tails;-, in- his liosion sv/«ech on.. April'' 25 Mil. Taft, in. his...tis.ri',i fi'p;;exposiii-d; of tiw ehiciincrv anil egoism of Mil. Ro.osKvn-T. dealt with Mn. Jiooskvtx'r's couiiPction \vith the- Ahicrican-! Ca.uiuiiiin JiVdj;rocii-y schemc. : Mk. lioosKVKi/r i;: tunv busily i!enouju:itig rociproci'iy as a blo'v. at (lie American fanner. -Mr. Taft -read a letter which he wrote to Mk. llpossv-iiilT 011 Jamiary 10. 1911, . beginning "Jly deai Thkoiiork." tn Uie course of it the Presideii.t- outlined his rectprociiy idea and asked- for Jin. Roosevelt's fipxnlpnj In tiie eourse of (iie letter Mil. T'ATT ■.ttstpd'.'tijfis" ' to nee: "Meantime, the amount of Canadian products wo v.vuld take woiifci -ptpflti.ee; a eyrven-fc -of ;UtiSi.ness between Western Canada and tiie United Stares that would make Canada only aii -adjunct- of. the United States.'' !ij» fierce eueniy just now of r;'ei|!rocity„ i- c -: pliefi that MI!.. Tait's proisesa) (a iletailed anel was "admirable from every It was fliat sentc.n.cc in Mii. Taft's letter wjiic.lv we have, quoted litat caus"d tin; uproar aiijo.ugsfc the liritish 'J who sent: in -a i-huwe.r of (luestions indiet.ing .Min B.itvc;-: for 'having lent iii'tn.r.eli', under instructions from the, British Government, iy this p'an o.f .assassinating Canada's ' nationhood. This grotesque assajiili. ((.poll M a. ll.if'vcK was' i:.e];eil:e'd by Mit. Af?Q..'.Ti.;ni' oil Jij.a-y (j. lie |it'i'il,l'le'!i t.Oli. ilia I (hi.'-;ad-'i ftnl.i not- ji.'issiiily have known Id' Mi;. T.ai !''s pi'ivaie lei!;•!•, :nu( iii a.try i.-asi? "iiad i.ioth.i-iig to do w-i'f .li t:lie vfeivs, or i.oliey n;f the t .tiiadinu f J m !'rn?i:--T; t. M i:. I - r-v-i: was inej ~. ly a (Ookej'-oii. itijd- 0: Valuable lortki'.roiis siuei' Jjis Ijad "i.uspifeil -.t-aivrtda with coniitfeiice iii the British Anx-

b.iissac'or -rj;t> Wcsh-ingtort.'' There is ■n.Q ctou-bb that the ]ir'jtish Tariflttes were honest lii ihcir wild suspicious of M is. Ili;v;r; and il i.s evidence <:i tin; intensity of British party Wiir : fore that tin's Unrokiisfcs' w4l'f'wu'ded il, übts of iii:* ( ; ovi nimeut's htmesiy SjjtmM Ijt so jwi-gna-nt «s to lifiiut t)«i

IVflfffco ;\::i remits to a perception of tW -foolishness of fltti* miggcstiou ;(l-vafc flic Government; had tin.. B.rycb to- iiclji Canada out of the Empire.

The friends of the United Labour irarty have sinalf vcafion to feci tia]i|'-y over the Wmlii strike. The iiuiy of the. irnrly, i-f there were

an-y si-nceri-ty in those strong cjohmn^; ci4tio.ns of the tendencies of the i'e.derniion of Lahour. wa.s- obviously togive !i!oral .and matevial suiipoi'l; to> the \Vi:uiers" tfirion in its fight at\'nnsi. synct.icai.ist cocrcion. But the ■leader's of the "I'nity ' party have, their private game to play, we ;spjijiose. h; it's chastened i'looa the Fed-. erati.ein a-ppeicrs to be, w'iliing for the : time to: reirear upon ilif- uriioni.st. position, and in tli-eii interview with the Minister for Labour, its repre.scntativtfs used the autlirnfic ttnior.isf, vtticd:. Yet even, here ths Bi'iitiidLiibout party is iiiiAvilling to mov», aii inch. I'-ro.feSs.i.rig a hatred of >3-yncti'cri.iism and ;prete'n.di-n'g .coji- ' C.ei'n for organised trade workers, it left the.>yi-3ider's'-' Union to fight the Waiiii Miners' LTiii'tn ; i! did -not lift a finger to help She winders' appeal to public sympathy. .Again;,; profess-; ing concern for the, furtherance of those union "principles" which. the Federation is now endeavouring;, stiiiid upon, the United Labour party confimtcs to do nothing. It left hot!i the, i ; 'edcration and' the Winders' Union in ..the' luich. This m.iy, of. ■ course', be t.h.c iruo policy for the promotion of "Labour unity," licit, the ,itycVAgC wage-earner jrhay exc'usccl, if he. concludes that it is the. policy rif a [landfill of tiiiiddle-Sicadcc! doctrinaires endeavouring to sneak, bv I. oil the blind side of the public.'